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C. W. HUBBARD, In. CIGARETTE BOX.

APPLICATION FILED 0CT.24. I914.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

PatentedSept; 7,1915.

Application filed October 24, 1914. Serial No. 868,354.

To all re/1.0m it may concern:

Be it known that I, CrranLns /V. HUB- HARD, Jr, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and resident of the borough of llllanhattan, in the city,county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulimprovements in Cigarette-Boxes, of which the following is aspecification.

The object of this invention is to provide a simple and practicable boxin which cigarettes may be sold to the, consumer, having the attractiveappearance and convenience of the carrying cases of more expensivematerials to which cigarettes are commonly transferred from the originalpackage. Otherwise stated, the object is to enable a receptacle on theorder of a cigarette case to be made of comparatively cheap andperishable materials suitable for the retail package, so that it mayserve the purposes of both, to insure the cigarettes beingsafely guardedand held, and to admit of their individual removal safely and withoutspilling. These ends are attained by a combination of outer receptacle,consisting of box halves formed of dished cardboard blanks, with anelastic retaining band and an inner pocket or folder beneath the band,whereby the cigarettes are securely held and perfectly protected withoutthe necessity of dishing the box parts deeply or of providing fasteningmeans, thereby simplifying the manufacture, avoiding breakage of thecarboard stock, and ultimately facilitating the extraction of thecigarettes, and whereby, also, bending of the cigarettes by the hand,while being held or in the act of removal, is avoided.

Further features and advantages will be apparent to those skilled in theart from the specification and drawing.

In the said drawings: Figure 1 is'a perspec tive view of the box closed,its halves being held together by a revenue stamp or paster; Fig. 2 is aView of the box opened, portions being broken away; Fig. 3 is a sectionon the line 3-3 of Fig. 2; Fig. 4. is a view partially in side elevationand partially in longitudinal section through the box; and Fig. 5 is afragmentary view showing one of the cigarettes partially withdrawn.

The box comprises two oblong halves 2 and 3, of suitable cardboardstock, united at two of their short sides by a hinge 4, preferablyconsisting of a piece of textile fabric glued or pasted to both halves.These box members consist of singleblanks formed in dies, so as to haveimparted thereto agentle curvature 5 at the four sides, the shallownessof the dishing avoidinginjuryto the stock. The blanks areintended to be.covere-d outside with a suitable finishing paper, and theedges of themembers are preferably formed as flat, outwardly-directed rims l2constitutingdesirable jbearingfsurfaces v and improving the appearanceof the box. '3

The member 3, which may be termed the bottom.member, bears an elasticretaining band 6, stretched lengthwise across its interior, at rightangles to the line of the hinge,

the ends of this band being inturned and embedded in and pasted to thematerial of the sloping portion ofthe box member, and covered by afinishingsheet 7, as;,more par.- ticularly set forth in my co-pendingapplications Seriah N umber 833,424; filed :A ril 21,:l91 1', and SerialNumber 833,425, filed April 21, 191%. Beneath the band is a folder 8,forming a pocket in which the cigarettes are held in a single row. Thesaid folder preferably consists'of a sheet of heavy foil with a liningof paper, which are folded on two lines to form a back 9, a bottom andinner flap 10, and an upper and outer flap 11. The bottom flap isinterposed between the band and the cigarettes, and isthus held in placeby the former and serves as a guard for the latter to prevent them beingbent by the band. The upper flap overlies the band and may be readilyturned up to expose the ends of the cigarettes. In order to preventdisplacement, the back of the folder pocket is preferably glued to thebottom of the box member. It will be observed that the eliicacy of thefolder as a pocket is due to the cooperation therewith of the elasticband, and that this mode of holding the cigarettes between the boxhalves renders it unnecessary to dish the box members deeply and therebysecures the advantages as to manufacture and use already indicated. Thecigarettes are slid outward in almost a straight line, which is not onlyconvenient but also insures their removal in good condition, theoperation being further facilitated by the fact that the upper flap 11folded backward affords an easy sliding surface to guide the end of thecigarette over the curve of the box. A further advantage of the innerpocket in which the cigarettes are held is that a catch for the boxhalves is rendered unnecessary, and thus a serious item of expense and aconsiderable manufacturing difiiculty are avoided. Previous to sale, theboX may be held closed by the revenue stamp or by a paster. In addition,the pocketinsures the cigarettes being kept in a fresh condition andadequately protects them, even though the edges of the boX halves do notcome together closely. In the drawings the edges are shown meeting on astraight line, but in actual practice they are likely to be separated toa certain extent and may be more or less uneven, without detracting fromthe efiectiveness or appearance of the package.- As indicated in Figs. 2and 5, an important function of the foil pocket is to conform to thenumber of cigarettes remaining at any one time, clasping them in such away that it is practically impossible for them to fall out or becomedisplaced.

What I claim as new is:

1. A package for cigarettes, comprising an outer receptacle consistingof oblong dished box-halves joined by a hinge at one of the short endsand adapted to receive the cigarettes in a single row, in combinationwith an elastic retaining band secured lengthwise acrossthe interior ofone of the Copies of this patent may be obtained for box-halves, and afolder pocket beneath said band, said pocket comprising a back overlyingthe bottom of said box-half, a lower flap continuous with said back andcarried up over the cigarettes from their lower ends and held by saidretaining band, and an upper flap continuous with the back and coveringthe upper portions of the cigarettes and adapted to permit the removalofthe same.

2. A package for cigarettes, comprising an outer receptacle consistingof hinged box halves, each consisting of a single piece of dishedcardboard stock, in combination with an elastic retaining band securedacross one of the boX halves, and a folder comprising a back applied tothe bottom of said box half, a lower and inner flap interposed be tweenthe band and the cigarettes, and an upper and outer flap adapted to beturned back to expose the ends of the cigarettes.

In testimony whereof I have'signed my name in the presence of twowitnesses.

CHARLES W. HUBBARD, JR.

Vitnesses J. F. BRANDENBURG, E. GREENBERGER.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington,D. 0.

